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Articles on learning Japanese, culture, and media reviews (manga, novels, etc.) [EMAIL CONTACT: selftaughtjapanese -at- gmail.com]Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:01:58 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9Comment on Welcome back, Aikido: My story of returning to the dojo by Shinichi Tohei (藤平信一), current head of Ai Aikido (心身統一合氣道), appears on a Japanese educational program – Self Taught Japanesehttp://selftaughtjapanese.com/2017/07/19/welcome-back-aikido-my-story-of-returning-to-the-dojo/#comment-6136
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:01:58 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=9097#comment-6136[…] year I posted about my training in the Japanese martial art of Aikido (合気道, or sometimes written […]
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Fri, 07 Dec 2018 02:51:50 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=6008#comment-6135as if that’s not confusing enough, apparently “erai” can also, in some contexts, mean “troublesome, awful, terrible”, although nobody on the internet seems to have a good explanation of exactly when that usage applies. 🙁
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Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:37:39 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=1433#comment-6134Thanks much for the comment! It’s good to know my blog is helping people out.

I agree that finding words to explain concepts you haven’t thought of is one of the great parts of learning a foreign language.

I have over 500 other articles on my blog, I hope you can find some others things to help out in your studies (:

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Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:26:47 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=5394#comment-6133PLEASE GO ON TRANSLATING……….. THANK YOU!
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Wed, 28 Nov 2018 07:53:52 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=1433#comment-6132last week an instructor said to me 余裕がまだないね. he was quite surprised I didn’t know this very common expression. as i was when my japanese teacher explained it to me. it felt like the word had been invented to describe me/my way of doing things. I decided to look it up to send to a friend bc this thing just happened which is 100% me + my use of time which can’t really be put into any other words and that’s how i landed on this page. it’s perfect thanks. this is my favourite part of learning languages, finding words to explain concepts you hadn’t even thought of verbalising while giving you a glimpse into the worldview unique or special to another culture and enriching your life in the process.
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Mon, 26 Nov 2018 14:38:42 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=754#comment-6131[…] a strong opinion or feeling on the speaker’s part, like “…,right?”. See this post of mine for more details on this word. Note that technically the word is spelled […]
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Sun, 25 Nov 2018 09:28:57 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=11778#comment-6130I have watched it too. I like the first episode. Though my Japanese level is not that good to be able to watch without subtitles, I still learnt a lot of words that are common in Japanese textbooks. I strongly recommend this to Japanese learners.
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Sun, 18 Nov 2018 16:50:03 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=6612#comment-6129Yo Bro, thanks for translating this novel, thanks to the author too. Beautiful story. If only the author makes this series a little bit longer just by describing more details to the story will make it a more complete story. your translations is perfect though, not using complicated and making the reading smooth is a big plus to that and especially be faithful to the style of the author’s writing.
thanks bro
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Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:34:32 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=9626#comment-6128[…] a pretty big fan of Japanese gardens, to the point I remade my backyard into one, so I was happy to read “Minature Japanese Gardens: Beautiful Bonsai Landscape Gardens For […]
]]>Comment on 困る (komaru) and 助かる (tasukaru), two useful Japanese verbs by Japanese word “sonna” (そんな) and related expressions [sonna koto nai (そんな事ない), etc.] – Self Taught Japanesehttp://selftaughtjapanese.com/2014/12/12/%e5%9b%b0%e3%82%8b-komaru-and-%e5%8a%a9%e3%81%8b%e3%82%8b-tasukaru-two-useful-japanese-verbs/#comment-6127
Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:37:19 +0000http://selftaughtjapanese.com/?p=1802#comment-6127[…] surprising. It can be used in serious situations like the above or in a lighter sense. (By the way, the verb “komaru” is a little difficult to translate to English, see this post for more details on that […]
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